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NCLEX Nutrition

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1. What foods are carbohydrates and provide energy?






2. What type of albumin levels will show malnutrtion?






3. What foods are good sources of carbohydrates?






4. Concentrated sources of energy poviding 9 calories/gram






5. What lab value shows iron stores of visceral body protein?






6. Sources of fats






7. Where can you find good sources of vitamin K?






8. Promote normal metabolism - and prevent this nutrient from being used for energy






9. What blood levels are checked for decrease in iron?






10. How much grains are to be eaten per day?






11. What does DASH stand for?






12. If patient. has beriberi - or wernicke korsakoff syndrome what type of foods would be needed?






13. What foods are needed for this deficiency of nutritional anemia - or neural tube defects?






14. What illness is a direct result of vitamin D deficiency?






15. How many cal/gram are carbohydrates?






16. What water soluble vitamins are easily excreted from body?






17. When does BMR increase?






18. What type of fat is to kept to an all time low for consumption?






19. What foods are good if patient. is vitamin A defecient and/or suffer from night blindness or xeropthalmia?






20. What vitamin can helps with blood clotting?






21. How much more calories are needed for lactation?






22. How much meat/beans should be eaten?






23. What foods have high quality protein?






24. Insufficient intake of carbohydrate results in these two nutrients being used as energy






25. What is normal albumin levels?






26. Waist circumference correlates apple versus pear body type and reflects risk pattern for disease






27. What clinical administration is used and checked by albumin - prealbumin - and transferrin and overall nutrtion?






28. Fats can lead to some medical problems






29. When does BMR decrease?






30. Where can you find good sources of vitamin E?






31. Where can you get more vitamin D?






32. What type of people need extra protein?






33. What function is vitamin A?






34. How long should a food record or journal is analyzed for nutrient content?






35. How much more calories are needed for pregnancy?






36. Name six sources of grains






37. What does basal metabolic rate BMR calculate?






38. What is the function of vitamin C?






39. What color vegetables are to be consumed more of?






40. What problem may occur if vitamin K deficient?






41. The higher the BMR a client has --






42. What is the function of vitamin E?






43. If patient. is deficient with this vitamin - what foods will help scurvy or bleeding gums?






44. How much milk is to be consumed per day?






45. Protein stores show short term changes of which lab value






46. If protein stores become depleted which can neagatively affect immune system of which lab value






47. What function is vitamin D?






48. How much vegetables are to be eaten per day?






49. Fats are needed for proper absorption of these vitamins






50. If fat intake is insufficient then expect these medical problems